Featuring my thick and nuggy Chonky Boy Chocolate Chip Cookies, these ice cream sandwiches are the stuff that summer dreams are made of. If you've ever had the Cookie Ice Cream Sandwich at Disneyland , you are going to LOVE these! These big and bold chocolate chip cookies are based on a recipe from my culinary school studies at Auguste Escoffier, but with a few modifications to give them that Jennuine touch. They make the perfectas book for a fat slice of real vanilla bean ice cream. And those mini chips? You just gotta have that extra cronch! Thank goodness this recipe only makes 8 sandwiches, otherwise I would be eating them for breakfast lunch and dinner. This way, my big family can help save me from my inner child diet-saboteur. Print With Image Without Image Chonky Boy Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches Yield: 8 Author: Jenn Erickson Loaded with chocolate chips and buttery, brown-sugary vanilla flavor, these mall-sized cookie...
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COOL BEANS! LEAN, GREEN, & PACKED WITH PROTEIN: EDAMAME PESTO
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Both of my girls were healthy, adventurous, excellent eaters when they were toddlers. With each birthday candle we add, at least 10 foods drop off the "WILL EAT" list. I'm looking forward to the day when the tides turn back in my culinary favor. So many wonderful, innovative recipes were born during those early days when the girls were little and I had all the time in the world to concoct new recipes to take on our frequent picnics!
One of my favorite creations from this period was born out my youngest daughter's early love of all foods green! Perhaps channeling some of her Greek ancestors, she would have been perfectly content to devour a plate of spinach laden Spanikopita every day. She was gaga for pasta with pesto, and preferred popping edamame (fresh soybeans) to any other little toddler sized snack.
One day, as I was preparing for a picnic -- edamame boiling away in one pot, and food processor out and ready to whir up a batch of pesto -- I discovered that about half of my basil had gone the way of slimy swamp grass. Improv time! The edamame were right there, calling my name. So, I added half of the pot to the food processor, along with my pesto ingredients, flicked the on-switch, and crossed my fingers. What resulted was a creamy, garlicky pesto sauce that was the perfect compliment, with a protein punch, for our pasta. The girls LOVED it!
As I said, the girls now turn their noses up at many of the things that they once loved as toddlers. Pesto and Spanikopita both got the ax many years ago. But just last week I was at Trader Joe's and noticed that they were selling whole edamame, still on the stalk, in their fresh produce department (pretty cool!). It reminded me of the edamame pesto I had made so many years ago, and I thought, perhaps, the girls were ready to give it another try. Unfortunately I never wrote the recipe down, so I tried to do the best I could from memory last night.
Because I had forgotten that the original creation only used half a bag of edamame, last night's experiment yielded an absolutely delicious, but very thick SPREAD. I busted out some French bread toast points, and treated the family to a wonderful little amuse bouche. The spread would be marvelous on toasted sourdough rounds, or on a sweet baguette for a picnic lunch. It would also be the perfect dip for a crudite!
Following is the recipe for the Edamame Pesto Spread. To make the creamy Edamame Pesto sauce for pasta, simply reduce the Edamame by half.
I recall, as a child, going to The Chart House restaurant and looking forward to the basket of freshly baked breads. My favorite was always the dark brown, slightly sweet bread that the servers called "Squaw Bread". I've heard that a similar bread is served at The Cheesecake Factory. The name has gone out of fashion, since "squaw" is a derogatory term for a Native American woman. The history of this bread can in fact trace its roots to Native American origins when German pioneers combined their traditional German Brown Bread recipe with ingredients available to them through trades with the native people during their westward travels. No matter how you slice it, this New World German Brown Bread is easy to bake and so wonderfully delicious to eat. Print With Image Without Image New World German Brown Bread Yield: 1 large loaf Author: Jenn Erickson Prep time: 1 H & 50 M Cook time: 45 M Total time: 1 ...
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Did you know that Elmer's glue was invented in 1942 by a Georgia Tech chemistry graduate? The company was sold to Borden in the mid-1950s, which is why the Elmer's mascot, Elmer the bull, looks so much like his "sister" Elsie who graces the Borden label. I can't speak for those who grew up in the 1940s, but as a child of the 70's I can definitely say that my earliest memories of childhood creativity were with Elmer's glue and school paste -- inevitably there was always a kid in every class who thought that eating the paste was a novel idea. I'm glad to say that that child was never me. But I digress... Flash forward almost forty years, and you'll find me today still using the same reliable Elmer's products (and some new ones too). I recently had the opportunity to participate in the Elmer's Looks for Less Challenge where bloggers were asked to recreate popular home design looks with Elmer's & X-acto prod...
